Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-15
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new paper at Paris, Tex
4 row round Ireland in an open boat has
been attempted by q yenturesome sailor who
started from Belfast Tough recently.
4 silver haired patron of the Fifth Avenue
hotel. New York, who has lived there Tor
twenty-five years, claims that in that time
his lodging and meals have cost him SiOo.Ouo.
The Alaskan Indian is pre-eminently the
dude Of his race He is always clad IN hand
some furs or blankets and carries walking
stick which is often beautiful specimen Of
elaborate carving.
The man who blows the cornet in a rural
brass hand down in Maine is six feet and ten
inches tall and the band Is looking for "A
drum major that won't look ike midget
prancin- in front OF him
The Jackson Mich, police force. sixteen in
number, weighs 2,oS3 pounds, is Go years
old and ~ feet in height. Its feet are 80
inches i'll length, it wears Il size lilo hat and
has 81 buttons on its clothing.
Mosquitoes in China have a very poisonous
stins. In a Tientsin hospital there were at
one time last summer a man with an ahscess
in his face ami another with blood poisoning
from the bite of the insects.
The forfeited railroad grant in Michigan
held by fraud for nearly thirty years Is being
pre-empted with rush. L'AnSe is nearly
depopulated Even the editor of its one
paper has dropped his shears and gone into
the wilderness
Two families occupying the same house M
Wallngford, Conn, fought long and bitterly
until the woman on the first floor burned
feathers and cayenne pepper. Then the
woman on the second floor capitulated and
moved out.
The original Bartlett pear trees, named
after Enoch Bartlett, still stand on his
grounds, near Boston, and are over fifty
years old. Twenty years ago new top was
grated upon these old trees and they still
bear fine fruit.
\ letter addressed to 1.-THE best lawyer" in
Washington was received a few days ago
from d man in jefferson, Tex, who wanted
10 get an opinion ON some original poems
which he inciosed. Poets have TO proceed
cautiously in Texas.
Tie klamath Indians have built up a con
siderable carrying trade along the Pacific
coast In their large canoes hewn out of the
solid trunks of immense trees they carry
dairy and farm products for the settlers and
return with groceries and other supplies.
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Many years ago the GROUNDS "hereoh the
Atlanta exposition now STANDS was sold To
Mr.. Niles Dobbins, oil Cobb county, Tor
saw. ms year ti'e l"' acres were sold 10
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The f1tcalrn Islanders, the descendants of
Brltish mutineers, sui i've happily and are
pros 'erous. A shlpwrecked man from The
United States mas married one OF the natives,
The ISLANDERS stlil Keep the OLD country names,
Young, McbVoy ana CHRISTIAN and want
uttit except hails ana nsh hoo"S
A passenger on a Georgia railroad, with a
tickct to Wat rs Station, found that the train
woul net stop there After appealing in
vain to 70 conductor, he went to the front
platform of the rear coach, drew out the
coupling pin, set the brake, and, when the
car slackenel its speed jumped Off into the
darkness 1t was not until the train reached